<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent using SMTP.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 16, 2019, at 11:13 AM, K7TPG <<a href="mailto:K7TPG@protonmail.com">K7TPG@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Eric:<br></div><div>You mention you have a computer with four radio ports... what are those? I am not familiar with "radio ports" on a computer. Perhaps just replying with the make and model number would help us identify what they are.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Tim<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>=================================<br></div><div>Tim Govin<br></div><div>K7TPG<br></div><div>+1.435.655.1520<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>See my previous answer to k6ecm and the list included below for hardware specifics. Honestly l don’t see why the hardware matters for the context of the original question (what exactly is a node?). Call the ports channels if you like, I don’t see why it matters. At least as I understand it every node in the AllStarLink system that has radio ports is a computer of some sort with radio ports. The hardware that provides those ports I consider to be an integral part of that computer system as without them that computer system would be incapable of connecting to radio hardware. Weather one is using some usb dongle, an fxo port and arib board Jim Dixon designed and had me build a bunch of for a project he was doing, the 4 port pci radio card Jim designed and had a bunch built, or the Dmk engineering interfaces, to asterisk they are just simply channels as are sip, iax, EchoLink, IRLP, DSTAR, etc. let’s not confound the specific hardware being used here as relating to the original question (what exactly is a node?) the interfaces shouldn’t matter as a node at least as I am coming to understand it simply has one or more channels that interface with asterisk. </div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div><div>Af6ep </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Saturday, March 16, 2019 11:32 AM, Eric Fort <<a href="mailto:eric.fort.listmail@fortconsulting.org">eric.fort.listmail@fortconsulting.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div>Not sure what you mean by:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>On Mar 16, 2019, at 3:12 AM, Bob Pyke <<a href="mailto:k6ecm1@gmail.com">k6ecm1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I do not recognize your port types, but AllstarLink software is designed to interface with specific interface hardware such as the DMk engineering URIx, or any number of modified USB audio interfaces based on the CM119 chip family.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My available radio port hardware I don’t think I mentioned but I have a 4 port pci radio interface card I traded Jim Dixon for long ago that has never been used and I have probably 20-30 ARIB boards that I got around the same time. That said I’m not sure what port hardware i have is important, more so that each port is a channel in asterisk and how each channel relates to the concept of a node. I’m most familiar with remote radio systems based upon the Sierra radio systems (SRS) controller which may have up to 8 ports (channels) of audio connected and any port may be connected to any other port in a cross point matrix. The general configuration is usually a remote (not remote base) full duplex radio that acts like a repeater, a number of full duplex links to other sites, and possibly a frequency agile remote base on one or more bands. Each site/controller has a prefix that is unique to that site for controlling functions at that site, the prefix I would take to be similar to a node number. In many ways I’d like to have my node(s) able to emulate this behavior (mostly for compatibility reasons) and I’m looking at how this might be done. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Eric<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div>See <a href="https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Main_Page">https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)">Thanks,</span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)">Bob</span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)">K6ECM</span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)"></span><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)">Sent from iPad</span><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>On Mar 16, 2019, at 12:24 AM, Eric Fort <<a href="mailto:eric.fort.listmail@fortconsulting.org">eric.fort.listmail@fortconsulting.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><span>Could someone help me get a better idea of the concept of what a node is in asterisk/app_rpt/all star terminology. I have a computer with 4 radio ports, an fxo port, an fxs port, and an Internet connection which allows connection to any number of endpoints over sip or iax. Now what is a node? I’d like to be able via DTMF to bring one or more radios on and off link. Some of my understanding that needs to happen here is how AllStarLink is architected but also relating concepts to what I know and am familiar with which is a network of linked remotes (anyone here a cactus member or at least familiar with how a srs controller is architected as an 8x8 full duplex audio switch matrix. ) where a remote may have up to 8 radios and each of those can be linked or unlinked individually to any one or more of the other 8. Finally, how does AllStarLink prevent loops in routing? I know this seems odd at first glance but I can easily foresee audio from one source being linked to multiple places and those sources being mixed and linked back in a twisted mess. 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